Perhaps the best thing about living in my neighborhood is that my house is less than a mile from Cathedral Park and the majestic St. Johns Bridge.

The fog we've been seeing in Portland the past few days inspired me to head to the park and shoot some images that might show the park in a different light.

Normally I underexpose a proper meter setting by 2/3 of a stop so I can get good saturation. As I was shooting I noticed I needed to overexpose the meter reading slightly to compensate for the excessive light being reflected back from the fog. Saturation is not as much of a factor in heavy fog anyway, as much of the image is monochromatic.

I also shot a few mages on my iPhone, using the Hipstamatic app. I often use the iPhone for a few frames so I can post the images more easily to Instagram. While I find that the iPhone tends to overexpose a bit too much for my liking, the fog rendered exposure well.

My widest lens was 24mm, which was still a bit too tight for some of the scenes I was shooting. I found myself wanting to go home a get something wider, though learning to work within limitions causes one to think about different angles.

Forecasters say the never-ending ridge of high pressure that continues to shunt storms north of the Pacific Northwest shows no signs of weakening at least for the next week to 10 days, meaning there will be a few more opportunities to get out and shoot some images in fog.